20 Ways to Reduce Stress A stress-free life? Impossible. Stress is a response to challenges in life, and a life without challenge is too boring to contemplate. However, most of the stress in our lives is unnecessary, and it can be eliminated by taking some simple (and some not-so-simple) steps. It can't be accomplished overnight -but each step you take toward stress-relie...Read more

Eight Ways To Fight Your Fears Do you have a classic fear of flying? Does the prospect of public speaking scare you? Are you suffering from a case of new-job jitters? Whatever your personal panic buttons may be, you can take simple steps to rid yourself of all that anxiety once and for all. Here's how: 1. Take One Step at a Time A time-honored technique for dealing wi...Read more

Stress Management Tips For Working Mothers Working mothers often feel pulled in a million directions. But learning how to effectively manage daily stressors will prepared you for major stressors in the future, such as financial or health emergencies. Here are some basic tips to prevent stress from stealing your sanity.SleepThe duration and quality of your sleep affects your body in so m...Read more

5 Yoga Poses to Help Drain Stress When hyperventilating sometimes seems the only option to stress, Petri Brill has a healthier suggestion: yoga. "Yoga is not just a practice of poses, but of your breath work," says Brill, a Dallas certified yoga instructor. "The practice of slow, controlled, rhythmic breathing helps bring down blood pressure, rest the heart, clear th...Read more

What Is Stress? The mind-body connection has been recognized since ancient times. More recently, researchers at the American Institute of Stress, a New York-based not-for-profit organization, maintain that 75 to 90 percent of patients visits to physicians are for ailments that have some kind of link with stress.Stress begins in the brain with perceptions of and em...Read more